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Re: Gravitricity

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The deeper you go, the higher the pressure. The higher the pressure, the smaller the (trapped) air bubbles. The smaller the air bubbles, the lower the upward force. As a result, the deeper you go, the more air you will need to pump into your tank. Or in other words: with a given amount of air inside your tank, there's a maximum depth you can go. If you go deeper, the air bubbles will no longer lift the tank.

Of course, and that's what happened to Kursk. But: The released air would go up, regardless how pressured it is. While going up it would decompress taking up more space and therefore having greater force to push the tank up (as I mentioned, released air would be capture in a construction similar to a tree with leaves. Imagine leaves upside-down capturing the air. I'm sure you can find different type of mix that would…

If the bubbles are captured higher up, say 500m above the tank, so that the increase in deplaced water can lift the tank, you couldn't lift the tank all the way up to the surface; it would be stuck at 500m below surface.

It's the basic law of conservation of energy. You need to provide the energy required to lift the tank by compressing the air. The energy required to lift the tank is mgh (mass of tank, gravitational constant, height to lift the tank). The energy stored inside the tank is proportional to p*V (pressure times volume). You can't lift the tank further than the amount of energy you have available, so you can never have a surplus of energy.

Re: Gravitricity

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If you drill a hole 1500m deep, and you use concrete as the material of the object used for energy storage, and the volume of the object is V [cube meters], when the object is at its maximum level you have stored an energy of:

E = 10 x V KWh

This means that with 10 cube meters of concrete you can store 100 KWh (more or less the energy consumed by 10 households per day). If what they claim about doubling the energy storage is true, with the same amount of concrete you can store 200 KWh. 10 cube meters of concrete would weight just 24 tons, not so much after all.

Assuming a hole 1600m deep, and a system of cables capable of handling 250 tons (100 cube meters of concrete), you can store up to 2000 KWh (so you can serve 200 households for a day).

I don't know the price of drilling a hole 1600 meters deep, but with these premises, if the price is in the range of 1-5 millions $, a medium neighborhood can afford the operation.

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